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Services are being held today for three of the five people killed in a murder-suicide in a small farming town southwest of Kankakee. Last Friday afternoon, Sara McMeen, 30, shot and killed her boyfriend, Daniel Warren, 29, and her three children: 8-year-old Skyler Lemke, 7-year-old Ian Lemke and 10-month-old Maggie Warren. She then shot herself, authorities say. Visitation for McMeen will be held at 10 a.m. today at Hager Memorial Home, 201 W. Mazon Ave. in Dwight. A funeral service will follow at noon. Visitation for Warren and his daughter, Maggie, will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Fruland Funeral Home, 121 W. Jefferson St. in Morris. The funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m....

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